Notice to Hostsman users

[Espresso]

http://www.abelhadigital.com/


-{ Quote: "
This is a notice to all HostsMan users, currently using hpHosts.

Because I am seeing hundreds of requests per second coming in from HostsMan users*, I must request you please set HostsMan to check a maximum of TWICE PER DAY, and not every other second, as is the case now.

Whilst I do not want to ban the HostsMan user agent, the servers cannot handle the amount of traffic they are generating (the HM traffic currently accounts for 60% of the traffic coming into the network).

* the traffic I am seeing is only from a small sub-set of HM users, but amounts to a mini dDos due to the frequency in which they are doing it.

I hope that the users that somehow have set HostsMan to check for updates for more than twice a day follow Steven's request, otherwise, there won't be hpHosts for HostsMan users.

Thanks. " }-

[HAN]

I feel Mr. Burns is well justified with his post. IMO, updating the HOSTS file once a month is more than enough (even if the HOSTS file you're downloading is updated more often.) The HOSTS file is a longer term approach for ad blocking, problem sites (which can exist for many reasons) and more.) A managed HOSTS file is not an antivirus substitute and should not be considered as such. There is no reason to try to update it constantly...

[bellgamin]

Instead of merely posting notices, the developer of HostsMan (abelhadigital.com) should modify his application so that it is not able to cause such a absurd number of server accesses.